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Call for Papers

The organizing committee of the 2015 Conference on Transatlantic Studies: Intersections of Memory and Violence in the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World welcomes proposals for papers in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

Topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:

Legacies of authoritarian regimes

Drug trafficking and crime fiction novels

Human trafficking

Literature and testimony

Human rights and social movements

The boom of memory and violence in contemporary literature and cinema

Exile and memory

Language policy & endangered ethnic languages

Performing memory and trauma

Spaces of memory: museums, memorials, and urban art

Systemic violence

Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words for individual papers, and panel proposal abstracts on a specific theme of no more than 750 words to Dr. Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández [rhernand@mailbox.sc.edu] or Dr. Mercedes López Rodríguez [lopezrod@mailbox.sc.edu] by December 1st., 2014.

Researchers interested in organizing panel proposals are invited to submit an abstract from/for each one of the participants.